Yep, still here… baby #3 is less than a month out, Luke’s birthday was today, family is awesome.

Work is getting busy; after laying low for several months I’m looking forward to get into some new stuff. In the coming months I plan to blog about some of what I’m doing with Grails, Flex and possibly Alfresco.

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More soon…

I hooked up the old VCR to the computer today and started going through some old tapes. This clip is from around 1991 and was part of a video that Marc and I created. Man those glasses were huuuugh!

Getting settled in the new house. I got out for a lunch time ride today. This is a view from the new trail at the Ryolite Park across from my house; Pikes Peak in the background. Beautiful day…

Twenty years ago, carving the bowl at the abandoned old Joppatown Skatepark (aka Edgewood) off Rt 40 in Maryland. Left over from the 1970’s, it was demolished less than a year later. Amazing memories at this place…

The last two weeks have been a blur. Yesterday I returned home from a trip back to the east coast with Jeanie and Ephraim. We set out to show Ephraim as much as we could shove into four days. Prior to our trip though I was in Memphis and before that I was ill and remodeling my sister in-laws bathroom.

The trip to Memphis was work related. I really liked the city, but my trip was tarnished by a lopsided standoff with a concrete pillar in a parking garage and my rental dodge caravan. Claim still pending…

On Wednesday there was a power outage at the Memphis International Airport that wreaked havoc on flight schedules. I arrived home with only a few hours to unpack, pack and return to the airport for a red-eye to Philly.

While in Philly we stayed with my brother Joe in Prospect Park, PA… basically South Philly with a pizza or sandwich shops every third store. All the Colorado “New York” pizza shops should be ashamed of themselved. Pizza in Philly was still only ~$8 for a large pie. Most Colorado shops are almost double that. We got 3 large pizzas with toppings for less that $30. The last time I got Pizza in Colorado I paid nearly $40 for 2 “large” pizzas with toppings. Can someone please explain this to me??

On Friday we headed to New York City and rendezvoused with my brother Tom who was kind enough to treat us to lunch in Manhattan a few blocks from Marvel “… the fashion district, home of the tiny over priced portion.”

The next day we headed to Washington DC where we hooked up with my other brother Ken who treated us to dinner at a Mexican tapas-like restaurant where Ken and Ephraim ordered grasshopper tacos. No joke, there was a big pile of grasshopper wrapped in a corn tortilla! Missed photo opportunity for sure. Here are some other pictures…

On Sunday we attended the grand opening of Cambridge Sound Studios of the Newtown Square, PA since Joe did a painting for the studio. Awesome party. Great food and they even had Mummer!

Monday we hit the Jersey Shore before heading to the airport. Ocean City:

The final meal of the trip was a chicken cheese steak. Amoroso role, fried peppers, onions, provolone and hot sauce.

Mmmm Herrs Old Bay Potato Chips.

It was a great trip, but a long two weeks. I haven’t been on my bike since the CCTT two weeks ago and before that was the CCTT the week before. Not good spring training campaigh by any means…

We landed in Philly this morning at 5:15 AM, and I’m hanging out with Joe at his house. We’re here through the weekend planning to see family and show Ephraim NYC, DC and the mighty Atlantic Ocean. I spent a lot of time in airports yesterday, finishing up a trip to Memphis and the power was out at the Memphis airport through mid-afternoon. I flew into DIA at 5PM, drove home, unpacked, repacked, ate at Qdoba, and headed back to the airport.

I haven’t been on my bike in over a week now and missed this week’s CCTT…

Somehow I though the winter race in Leadville was going to be my last race in the snow this year… afraid not. Tonight was Cherry Creek Time Trial #2. Attendance was lite and I welcomed the rock star parking as we enjoyed temperatures in the mid 30’s, a strong wind and persistent snow. I wish I had pictures to share. Maybe some will surface from Erik or Shawn. My time was a few seconds slower than last week and both were short of stellar. I can’t wait until we have some decent weather.

Last Saturday I did my first team time trial with Chris, Shawn and Erik at Haystack TT near boulder. I suffered like a dog and was dragged around the course by Chris and Erik. Shawn meanwhile was busy trying to stick the old dropped chain to cart wheel maneuver.

Approaching the line… ouch

Congrats to Marc V for his win at Fairhill last weekend! And good luck to Chris who just headed down to AZ for the Arizona Trail 300 “race”. If all goes well, Chris will be the first single speed (rigid no less) finisher of the AZT.

I’d love to see stats on what percentage of all blog posts are an apology for not posting often enough. I have to assume the number is lower than I may expect since all the apologizing slackers (myself included), well, don’t post often enough. Anyway, that’s my passive aggressive apology.

I’ve been incredibly busy and have since transitioned back into consulting, taking a full time position with Avalon Consulting. I’m excited about my new role at Avalon, and the impact I’ll have there. I’ve recently had the opportunity to do some more work with Jira and set up a new Subversion environment. I should have some stuff to share there soon as well as pick back up on Grails.

On the cycling front, the first Cherry Creek time trial is Wednesday. I’m excited to see where my fitness is compared to last year at the same time. I’m about 13 lbs lighter if that’s any indication…

Hopefully more soon.

Posts have been few and far between these days. I still struggle with what to share on this blog and what purpose I have for it. Going forward I am going to focus more on sharing technology related “stuff”. I receive so much from the open source community at large and one way to give back is to share my experiences. 10 to 20 times a day I search Google to find the answers and at least 1/2 the time I find a someones blog post that addresses what I was searching for…

On the cycling front I’ve managed to sporadically get on (on off) my bike several times in the last two weeks. My collarbone feels great and though I don’t have all of my strength back, it doesn’t bother me at all.

Thanks for reading…

This is just a quick “ping” post to let you know I didn’t fall off the face of the earth. Life’s been extremely busy lately; I’ve switched jobs and Christmas is upon us.

I got the all clear from the doc regarding my collarbone, and I didn’t waste much time as I got a day of snow boarding in on Friday at Beaver Creek. I took a few hard diggers and everything held up OK. Now if I could only overcome my laziness and get back on my bike…

In my lack of content, I offer you Scott’s spam/phishing email correspondence post.